Ostrich House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1985. House.
Ostrich House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-roof-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ostrich House, Veldings Corner, Burnham Overy, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 842 428
- Coordinates
- 52.95175, 0.74064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ostrich House is an early 19th-century house located in Burnham Overy. It is constructed of red brick and features a red pantiled roof. The building is two stories high and has three bays. On the ground floor, there are two tripartite sash windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has three sash windows, also with glazing bars, all of which are set beneath cement rendered lintels. The central entrance has been replaced with a 20th-century door, which is sheltered by a bracketed gabled pentice porch that includes a carved ostrich. The gables have coped end parapets and there are two chimney stacks.
Local climate
Ostrich House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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